“They are transactional and can smell a loser a mile away,” said one Fox insider, to Rolling Stone.
“Since the beginning of the Biden presidency, the powerful Murdoch family has favored the Florida governor in the 2024 presidential primary, largely due to a conviction that DeSantis would be a more electable, and less chaotic, evolution from Donald Trump. But in recent weeks, the Murdochs have grown increasingly displeased with the DeSantis campaign’s perceived stumbles, lackluster polling, and inability to swiftly dethrone Trump. … They have also seriously questioned whether the governor is capable of defeating Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primary.”
For Christmas, it’s a blanket pardon for Hunter,
And that’s torn the whole political world asunder.
Everybody’s mad at Joe Biden
For doing some lyin’,
But that’s just one for old Joe and 30,573 for the Trumpster.
“As President-elect Donald Trump fills out his Cabinet and chooses his closet advisers ahead of Inauguration Day, many African American leaders are asking why more Black people haven’t been appointed to key positions.”
“If you defended the 34x felon, who committed sexual assault, stole national security documents, and tried running a coup on his country… you can sit out the Hunter Biden pardon discussion.”
“The only reason to nominate someone like Patel to run the FBI is to commit impeachable abuses of power. Trump makes no secret that this is, in fact, his purpose. Patel is similarly explicit on the point. Yet the Senate might very well confirm the man once Trump removes the incumbent FBI director and nominates Patel to replace him. … If it actually does so, would that constitute ‘consent’ to impeachable offenses?”
The author of an email critical of Fox News host-turned-Trump Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth threatened New Yorker writer Jane Mayer that “if you print that, I will deny I wrote it,” and when Mayer reminded him “that it had been sent from the same personal e-mail account that he still uses,” the author wrote, “I don’t care. I’ll just say it never happened.”
“Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun invested $30 million in President-elect Donald Trump’s crypto project three weeks after the election, helping Trump make a potentially hefty profit,” the Washington Post reports. “Sun, who recently made headlines for buying, then eating, a $6 million banana art piece, is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission on charges of fraud, market manipulation and other alleged violations.”
Gas prices continued to decrease across the country, with the national average cost for a gallon of regular gas falling to $3.037, according to AAA, reports Washington Examiner. This was a 3-cent drop from a week ago, when the cost of regular gas was $3.067 per gallon. Tuesday’s price is also less expensive than a month ago, when a gallon of regular gas was $3.103.
Circana BookScan found that sales of the Good Book are up by 22% for the year through the end of October compared to the same period in 2023. Total U.S. book sales were up by just 1% in the same period. HarperCollins Publishers even named the Bible a “particularly strong seller” in its most recent earnings report, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“As discussions intensify on Capitol Hill over reupping President-elect Donald Trump’s signature tax cuts, Republicans are headed for a massive fight over what could be a nearly $5 trillion price tag,” Politico reports. “Top House and Senate lawmakers are deeply divided over what, if anything, to do about the hit to the budget that would come by renewing the slew of tax cuts benefiting millions of Americans that are set to expire at the end of next year.”